Report Title:

Skilled Nursing Facilities; Enterprise Zone Benefits

Description:

Provides that skilled nursing facilities are medical and health care service businesses that qualify for enterprise zone benefits. (HB2914 HD1)

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2914
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008		H.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to skilled nursing facilities.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  Section 209E-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended as follows:

     1.  By adding a new definition to be appropriately inserted and to read:

     ""Skilled nursing facility" has the same meaning as defined in Section 1819(a) of the Social Security Act, as amended, (42 U.S.C. 1395i-3)."

     2.  By amending the definition of "medical and health care services" to read:

     ""Medical and health care services" means medical research, clinical trials, [and] telemedicine, and services provided in a skilled nursing facility, but does not include any other routine medical treatment or services."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2034.